Where else would you like to go in Scotland?
Did You Know?
- Tea Trade and Sir Thomas Lipton
Many of the tea plantations in India were developed by Scots.
By the late 1800s Thomas Lipton controlled 10% of the world tea trade.
Lipton was born in a Gorbals tenement and emigrated to America when he was 15.
He returned to Glasgow five years later and opened his first grocers shop. Soon he had expanded into a chain of shops and he was a millionaire by the time he was 30.
Much of his fortune was spent unsuccessfully competing for the Americas Cup, the premier sailing trophy.
Where else would you like to go in Scotland?